Happened on the a13 today..

The car is towing the transit at about five miles an hour on a main fast flowing road, the truck came round the bend and saw them late. Feel a bit sorry for the poor cu*t.

He was on his phone for sure!

Yep, he is definitely checking his phone or something

What on earth was that lorry driver doing behind the wheel?

I almost blamed the SUV but I had to think maybe it was an emergency or something beyond the drivers control. But looking closely again the big Truck had quite a distance and time to slow down!

The fact someone thinks this is anyone’s fault but the lorry driver is baffling

Let's see how many people understand "momentum" here. The truck's breaking power is not the same as your family car.

the truck driver had plenty of time to slow up or maneuver clearly was not pay attention

The removal and or use as a lane of the hard shoulder is cretinous and a risk to life. Any deaths should be brought to court and the people who decided to do this must face industrial manslaughter charges.

lorry driver on the phone texting . guarantee

*were held up. Not was held up. 🤦

That lorry driver had zero chance once he came round the bend 😬 poor bloke

Starting to think retarded monkeys with brains designed only to pick berries and fend off cave hyenas shouldn't be put in control of 20 tonnes of metal going 70 mph.

The car and the van that it was allegedly towing may have been at fault for going too slow, but to all those saying that the red lorry had no time to stop after coming round the bend: What if it had just been a traffic jam that the car and van were at the tail end of? The accident still would have happened. If you are going around a bend and can not see the road ahead beyond a certain distance, you should adjust your speed in anticipation of any change in the flow of traffic. Also, the other lorry behind managed to brake and stop in a much shorter distance when he/she saw the red lorry lose control (although I realise that the lorry behind may have been carrying far less weight, so this point may not be totally relevant). It seems that the red lorry reacted far too late.

Whilst the lorry driver is clearly at fault here, I have to wonder (a) why the car/van aren’t using what exists of a “shoulder” there, and (b) why the (presumably) broken-down van didn’t call the police / highways England (whichever is responsible on this piece of road) to get an escort / assistance. Hard to see any of the drivers escaping entirely without action from this one.

Everyone making claims this was th elorry drivers fault clearly have no idea that stopping a fully laden HGV is not the same as them stopping their Renault Clio

Only a fool forgets the two second rule.

My Dashcam footage 54mph for those saying he was speeding….. was he paying attention?? Well done to all those who helped him out the cab 👍 My faith in humanity was restored….

There are two drivers at fault. The cement truck driver got it wrong. The car towing the van is wrong too: the offence is driving without reasonable consideration for other road users under Section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Good job he didn't land on someone when he tipped over.

The truck 🚚 never had a chance If you think the trucks at fault get off UK roads Full load down hill slightly. The car is towing a van! Without a straight bar looks like rope which is illegal on A roads i think. Another rule is if you are towing another vehicle, the car pulling must have a bigger engine than the thing its pulling. Otherwise you get what you see, loss of momentum into stall, full engine stop. The truck 🚚 has mass coming off a blind bend and gravity kicks in.

Its a driving offence to actually drive too slow. The Jeep should NEVER be towing a van, and at less the 50mph on motorway. 100% SUVs fault

a13 is like the wild west but for cars and existential crises

I can't see any hazard lights flashing on the car or van getting towed, they are both been illegal aswell, the truck driver had enough time to slow down though

The white van driver was lucky he didn't get rammed into.

He’s doing 57mph in a vehicle that is heavy and carrying a lot of weight. He reacted a little slowly but avoided all other vehicles including the numptys doing 3mph and slowing down. No doubt attempting to save money by not having the Transit van recovered properly.

@grok it's AI or Real? video 📷

@grok It a real video Why would be AI, lol

@grok It a real video Why would be AI, yes

Why is that car and van crawling through the left lane though? On a bend too. Don't know but looks like they caused it. What's the breaking distance on that thing?

No warning lights and crawling along at 10 mph, some people shouldn't be driving

He should be sacked. He wasn't paying attention....and yes, i can....and bigger.

The only way that he couldn’t have seen the car and van in front of him, was if he wasn’t concentrating on the road ahead of him. I hope the police check his phone to see if he was on that.

It was clearly the fault of the white van and car in front of it

That lorry had about 3 weeks to slow down

Idiot. He wasn’t concentrating. Didn’t react until last minute when he swerved. Ban him for life

I'm afraid that liability will completely fall on the truck driver. The proximate cause is that driver's inability to stop and being forced to maneuver. Doesn't matter if the tow was illegal.

@MrMrwire14 Jeez there were several lucky escapes there